I abandoned that caning after the ninth stroke – and I wish I’d abandoned it earlier. By the time I had inflicted that ninth stroke, I honestly cannot see how I could have inflicted another without a very real risk of immediate injury to the boy concerned. I am almost certain that twelve strokes would have left him bleeding, and I suspect that even ten strokes would have. I think we were both very lucky that nine didn’t.
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I take this to mean that she was originally on inspection teams in your county and later on a...